The best iPod finally back with enough space - and after Firmware Update with Genius Mixes

What I have "trembled" before the last Apple event. Always iPhone and iPod touch wherever you looked in advance - I was afraid that the time of "real" iPods with click wheel comes to an end. That could and but could not be! No other iPod or MP3 player currently reaches the storage capacity of the classic, and as my old 80s classic a few months was already completely full and the media collection grows and grows, just had to get a bigger one. I'm just the one who always wants to have all this and not just a part - luckily I am not alone. And then: 160GB with the same thinness of 80GB classic - super!

There is the old classic models externally no difference: Still very robust and very handy. Very great: Despite 160GB (de facto are free: 148GB) is the new classic just as thin as the last year's 120s or 80s classic.

The well-known from iTunes Genius feature, which was introduced with the 120 is also available on this model. The newly introduced with iTunes 9 Genius Mixes function that was implemented at the start of the new iPod nano and touch line only when, after some protest in the discussion forums at Apple due to an automatic firmware update to 2.0.3 in iTunes now also on the new iPod classic 160GB plan - great! Especially for car trips, this feature is really great.
Since the 120 classic last year came, Apple has no firmware updates for the first classic models longer published. Genius is so deprived of the new models. . As it stands, the upgrade including Genius Mixes is in turn only the new 160er reserved - certainly for buyers of older models quite a nuisance. Missing Updates prevent mention other bug fixes. Lucky: The firmware of the new 160's classic fixes many errors that the 80 still had, for example, finally a functioning synchronization of podcasts where really belonged podcasts with the appropriate setting on the iPod can be removed. Another note: The older, thicker 160GB classic from 2 years ago had apparently the problem is that songs were partially interrupted or paused briefly. If the new, this is not - I've heard a few hours of music and similar breaks can not find.

The scope of supply is as usual from Apple in recent years, sparse: iPod, earphones (not to be used - please be sure to buy better earphones, so it is really good fun), dock adapter and iPod USB cable. That's it.

Overall, highly recommended and still the best iPod, the there has been. And the only one who has enough storage capacity. As long as the touch can not have at least or more than 120GB, there is no alternative.